As the Trump administration escalates its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, arrests and aggressive tactics by ICE and the Border Patrol, many seen on viral videos, have intensified the frustration and fear among residents, business owners and immigrant workers. trib.al/zVm2mk5
Bro these aren’t even your best 🫢
What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
What we know, 10:20pm
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani wins
—Dems keep PA supreme court
—Larry Krasner & Bragg win
— GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—ME anti-mail vote measure loses
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
An important correction in the NYT, to a chart that was shared a lot in recent days & that I shared myself, shows they'd made a mistake with the 18-24 year old turnout, and so it's not the case that age group outvoted all others.
Still: nothing to sneeze at here, still a huge surge in youth vote.
Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.
That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.
NY WFP 🤝 me
the same ranking for NYC mayor
I love public transit and I need moreeee
Policy changes often take years to show results.
And then there is congestion pricing in New York.
Here are all of the ways we could find it having an immediate effect: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
You already do this with your rbf
Big victory for everyone who gets to keep their rights and democracy in Wisconsin! Now let’s ungerrymander those congressional maps 😤
The all black with sunglasses is really doing something for me bb 🥵
The Trump administration is considering shutting down the HIV prevention division of the CDC and shifting its activities to a different agency. The move is representative of a reversal of the first Trump administration’s stance on HIV.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/h...
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
Breaking News: Senator Chuck Schumer said Democrats would not help pass a stopgap funding bill, raising the odds of a government shutdown. His party is united behind a 30-day bill for a bipartisan solution, but House Republicans purposefully left town after passing the six-month funding bill.
Not only is this horrifyingly evil on its own because people will die of preventable diseases, but it also harms the US to allow diseases more opportunities to spread, mutate, and become resistant to current treatments and vaccines. Nothing stays within the borders of a country
The U.S. economy is starting to show signs of strain as President Trump’s abrupt moves to shrink federal spending, lay off government workers and impose tariffs on America’s largest trading partners rattle businesses and reverberate across states and cities. Here's what to know.
Five alarm fire.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
What about from Enrique?
When are we hitting the gym then bro?
Not your old Tinder thirst trap pic from college
Breaking News: Parents say NYU Langone canceled gender-affirming treatments for two children after an executive order from President Trump threatened to punish doctors and hospitals.
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
It has taken the better part of 2 decades to wind down Guantanamo Bay and the horrific physical and psychological atrocities committed on many who were innocent or never had a fair trial. So much progress was made and I don’t want to imagine what may happen to future inmates
A view inside an AIDS clinic, with large cardboard boxes of medications being tended to by a worker in a red shirt and white hat. Text reads: "Trump Administration Halts HIV Drug Distribution in Poor Countries." Photo credit: Foto24/Gallo Images, via Getty Images
The Trump administration instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics.
Read more: nyti.ms/4hvI8s0
The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
BREAKING: LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand register their marriages on the first day of the law giving them equal status.
The enactment of the Marriage Equality Act makes Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia and the third place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, after Taiwan and Nepal.
